• GigaOm, Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:45 AM

ComScore this week reported that daily Web usage on mobile devices had doubled in the last 12 months, with nearly 22.4 million U.S. mobile using their devices to surf the mobile Web.

According to another new study, demand for mobile broadband is only going to increase around the globe, in spite of the recession. Infonetics Research says that by 2013 there will be more than 1 billion mobile broadband users, versus 210.5 million at the end of 2008. And these will be connections using 3G technologies, notes GigaOm's Om Malik, who points out that sales of mobile broadband PC cards and 3G modules topped $4.1 billion in 2008 and show no signs of slowing down.

This is particularly good news for mobile carriers, says Malik, which raked in $49.8 billion in mobile broadband revenue in 2008. Infonetics predicts that these revenue percentage increases will grow in the double digits over the next five years. If so, he says, the likes of AT&T need to improve their network quality. "Right now, buying a 3G from AT&T is like buying a confiscated car in an auction lot: You just don't know what you're going to get," he says.

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